Cuidados e Condições Bucais em Idosos Hospitalizados – Revisão Integrativa

Abstract

The mouth is not an isolated organ of the body, especially when dealing with hospitalized elderly people, whose underlying diseases and/or their treatments can interfere with oral health. The opposite also happens chronic oral diseases can have their conditions exacerbated in immunosuppressed patients or who do not verbalize symptoms, causing an increase in pain, oral infections, increased hospitalization time and hospital costs. And, unfortunately, hospitalized elderly people commonly have their oral health neglected by the health team, for the following reasons: lack of knowledge of the team, absence of dentists in the routine of the service, absence of signs and symptoms of oral infectious foci, and patients who do not verbalize pain. In this context, teledentistry is already established as an important tool in health education and updating. Our work aims to produce an e-book on oral care in the oral health of hospitalized elderly. Methodology: the first step will be to carry out an integrative review on the subject and, based on the results found, we will proceed with the following steps: elaboration (through the double diamond technique of design thinking), content validation (Delphi method and index of content validation), adequacy, registration, and disclosure.